Hijack a TV broadcast

The "Max Headroom pirating incident" is the fascinating story of the successful hijacking of two television signals in the Chicago, Illinois area on Sunday, November 22, 1987. This feat was accomplished by a mysterious person who then proceeded to perform an illegal broadcast on live television while wearing a Max Headroom mask.

If you wanted to Hijack an RTE broadcast, what programme would you interrrupt and what would you do!!

ctc_celtic

The Angelus

Mossy Monk

The nine o clock news and I would broadcast hardcore porn featuring nuns and bishops.

Irish Wolf

ctc_celtic wrote:

The Angelus

And do the angelus..

Dave!

I'd highjack Primetime, and my show would just feature me squatting in front of the camera and taking a sh*t. The ratings would go through the roof, and I could see RTÉ giving me my own show as a result!

Nailz

The All-Ireland Final. You'd probably be the most famous (and wanted) man in Ireland.

Mr. CooL ICE

Questions and Answers. I would just place a big '42' on screen for the entire hijack

Mitch Connor

a mate claims to have accidently hijacked a BBC SOngs of Praise broadcast years back.

A mate of his, in the same student apartment had a signal sender, so that they could watch DVDs/Videos on several tvs in the student apartments, or something like that. Anyway, this mate decided to put on a porn flick one night, and to share it. The story goes that the student building rented space out, or something like that, to the BBC for broadcasting equipment. The signal sender the mate of a mate had sent it to the BBC equipment, and broadcast the porno instead of Songs of Praise, to the local area.

It is supposed to have been in the papers that this happened but that no one was caught.

I don't know how true this story is, could be all lies.

Alanthroneus

an episode of lost....... and id interrupt it with whats going to happen in the next three episodes:)

Jesus Wept

When they used too (maybe they still too) stick aertel on the telly late at night, you could go to the page on your own telly and hold it and change the page.

:eek:;):D

What a thrill.

I'm CoNtRolLiN Da TeLlY!

Feral Mutant

Nailz wrote:

The All-Ireland Final. You'd probably be the most famous (and wanted) man in Ireland.

I wouldn't become the most wanted man in Ireland, the goatse man would

McSandwich

If I could find one, I'd play an old episode of Garda Patrol in place of Crimecall

Might have a go at hijacking the lotto draw too:D

TEH REAL CDP

I'd walk on the set of the late late show, put my arm round pat kenny - smile at the camera's and say "we'll be right back, possibly after this broadcast", then the signal would cut to a recording of he anne doyle sex tape.


Quality. Teh people would be outraged. :rolleyes:

Nailz

Well half the people could care less about goatse cause it was just a website. You have options to go into certain websites, even with here in boards.ie. But almost everybody in the country watches the All-Ireland Final and people will hate you more if you distupted it.

CarefulNow

I'd play a whole episode of Glenroe in place of the nine o'clock news.

I would make sure to interupt every single broadcast of fair city and replace them with the venture brothers or family guy.

TEH REAL CDP

CarefulNow wrote:

I'd play a whole episode of Glenroe in place of the nine o'clock news.

The infamous biddy and miley sex scene.

Jesus Wept

anne doyle sex tape?

Ruu_Old

Six One and then Twinks 'Zip Up Yer Mickey' tune playing over and over and maybe one a picture of Brian Dobsons head photoshopped onto some naked ladies body, that'll tip the nation over the edge.

Pineapple stu

ctc_celtic wrote:

The Angelus

Is that not a junkie programe? BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG ,BONG .

ctc_celtic

cymro wrote:

Is that not a junkie programe? BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG ,BONG .

of course its a stoners program, it just show junkies doing something, but cause their off their t1ts, they forget what their doing and just stare blankly into space.

Steoob

man did anyone watch the video in the OP? freaky **** that'd scare the **** out of me if i was (un)happily watching doctor who

CreepingDeath

I'd hijack the weather and replay an old version where it's going to sunny for the next 3 days. Then there's more chance of seeing women in wet tee-shirts running down O'Connell Street.

Naos

The-Rigger wrote:

When they used too (maybe they still too) stick aertel on the telly late at night, you could go to the page on your own telly and hold it and change the page.

:eek:;):D

What a thrill.

I'm CoNtRolLiN Da TeLlY!

Aertel still play late at night.

I didn't understand the technique behind this, "Hold it & Change the page"??

Can you go over this again in more detail, I will try it tonight...

thelordofcheese

Nailz wrote:

The All-Ireland Final. You'd probably be the most famous (and wanted) man in Ireland.

yes!
best plan ever.

J.S. Pill

I'd hijack a party political broadcast on behalf of Fine Gael

Just as they finish saying "There now follows a party political broadcast from Fine Gael..." I'd stick on some random footage from the Nuremberg rallies.

Jesus Wept

Mear wrote:

Aertel still play late at night.

I didn't understand the technique behind this, "Hold it & Change the page"??

Can you go over this again in more detail, I will try it tonight...

Used to be...

If you went to the page that was on RTE, on your own teletext, and then you could change to any page you wanted and it would appear on screen.

It seemed thrilling when I was 12.

ixoy

TMWRNJ used to have a "hijack" each week from some guy in his room. I also recall it happening on MTV once, with no explanation...

Naikon

I would replace the weather report with a series of clips designed to subliminally influence all who dare watch.
Failing that, an episode of a reputable tv show in place of something crap like Fair city.

Red Alert

If you were somewhere like a university residence or similar that has its own cable distribution it'd be very easy - they use different channel numbers and frequencies to those over the air. Also you get what's called the 'capture effect' - it means that TV's near your little jammer will see only your signal and not RTE's!

JIZZLORD

let's hijack an outdoor news thingy, though we'd have to wear baseball caps and tracksuits while waving like an idiot!

biko

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JIZZLORD wrote:

let's hijack an outdoor news thingy, though we'd have to wear baseball caps and tracksuits while waving like an idiot!

Like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iroLg-M1AQ&mode=related&search=

Wait til about a minute in.

StephenC_IRL

replace pat kenny with hardcore porn, the angelus with a clip from the exorcist and tuberdy with static, yes static is better than tuberdy, and you kids do know that you probably could hijack RTE right, just need to find someone who works there for some assistance

StephenC_IRL

JIZZLORD wrote:

let's hijack an outdoor news thingy, though we'd have to wear baseball caps and tracksuits while waving like an idiot!

http://cgi.ebay.ie/SCANIA-143M-double-expanding-SDI-camera-truck-420hp-V8_W0QQitemZ270149644081QQihZ017QQcategoryZ3319QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

steal that, drive it here, ram the RTE offices near the broadcast building, plug it in and broadcast

JIZZLORD

i meant a broadcast, not a big ass truck

StephenC_IRL

but one demands the other, we could all go on the late late show and just sit there quietly then all pounce, theres no way security could stop like 60 boards members

blah

They couldn't even stop that one oul lad who invaded the late late show .

wheres me jumpa

Id chance my arm at mass blackmailing people.

E.g. " John [or other common name ], I know about your affair [or other common secret ]. Leave a suitcase with 10k in cash at the base of the Spire tomorrow at 3pm precisely or I will tell your wife [or other partner, life or business]

biko

biko wrote:

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I never did English at school!
Anyway who cares, whether there are one or two at the end!

I like bending the grammar rules a bit!! (yep I've put in two again!)

TEH REAL CDP

The-Rigger wrote:

anne doyle sex tape?

Oh yes.

impr0v

Alanthroneus wrote:

an episode of lost....... and id interrupt it with whats going to happen in the next three episodes:)

..and still nobody would be any the wiser.

Steoob

i'd replace the mass on sunday, the angelus, and an evening prayer with just about any video that has to do with evolution or the disproof of god

Amigaman

just noticed the tread and thought I`d share an old `sploit of mine . Well actually my mates . We were both into Pirate radio Way , way back in `79 he into the tech end building am and fm transmitters and me more into the presenting and production end of things . Anyhoo around early Aug 79 he came into pocession of some interesting facts regarding how the newly launched RTE 2 radio signal was being relayed from donnybrook to Beaumont for retransmission. Basically they were transmitting at the upper end of the VHF band beyond the 108 meter range to beaumount which recieved and retransmitted at the nationwide frequency of 612 MW on the medium wave the broadcast on 90-92 FM didnt come for another couple of months.
So one night about 3 in the morning after 2 fm had shut down , ( gosh remember when radio and tv shutdown ) we parked up near the site in Beaumont and with my tape recorder going through a tiny battery powered preamp into an equally tiny FM transmitter we went "nationwide" on the 2fm transmitter ....well we only lasted 15 mins before we panicked when a garda car drove by turned off the tape recorder in mid song and legged it :-) .
Shortly afterwards when radio 2 went to FM they changed to secure microwave link so no more going nationwide :-) Ahhh!!! great days

Amigaman

Amigaman wrote:

just noticed the tread and thought I`d share an old `sploit of mine . Well actually my mates . We were both into Pirate radio Way , way back in `79 he into the tech end building am and fm transmitters and me more into the presenting and production end of things . Anyhoo around early Aug 79 he came into pocession of some interesting facts regarding how the newly launched RTE 2 radio signal was being relayed from donnybrook to Beaumont for retransmission. Basically they were transmitting at the upper end of the VHF band beyond the 108 meter range to beaumount which recieved and retransmitted at the nationwide frequency of 612 MW on the medium wave the broadcast on 90-92 FM didnt come for another couple of months.
So one night about 3 in the morning after 2 fm had shut down , ( gosh remember when radio and tv shutdown ) we parked up near the site in Beaumont and with my tape recorder going through a tiny battery powered preamp into an equally tiny FM transmitter we went "nationwide" on the 2fm transmitter ....well we only lasted 15 mins before we panicked when a garda car drove by turned off the tape recorder in mid song and legged it :-) .
Shortly afterwards when radio 2 went to FM they changed to secure microwave link so no more going nationwide :-) Ahhh!!! great days

Getting the uplink, Class

I knew someone who did something similar when they overrode a low power UHF TV repeater in Northampton in the mid eighties. They Just showed some pron videos for a couple of hours after the shutdown on ITV. This repeater covered a blackspot of about five square miles.

Nailz

thelordofcheese wrote:

yes!
best plan ever.

Ah-tank you, Ah-tank you.

Bottle_of_Smoke

Replace questions & answers with brasseye. Don't know if the paedophile episode suring the Madeline McCann crisis or the drugs episode when that guy was murdered by magic mushrooms would be better.